ACME Human Rights
Like some demented looney tunes character, our glorious Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Tim Soutphommasane has opened a free speech Pandora’s…
ACME Human Rights
Like some demented looney tunes character, our glorious Race Discrimination Commissioner Dr Tim Soutphommasane has opened a free speech Pandora’s…
The Nissan test: can we really negotiate Brexit sector by sector?
I wrote last month that a key test of Brexit success will be whether Nissan is still making cars here…
The most persecuted minority at universities
A few columns ago, I told the mortifying story of how I totally died at the Oxford Union. Today I’m…
How clever are ravens? I asked at the Tower
On Tower Hill, by the east wall of Beauchamp Tower where Robert Dudley was imprisoned for a year, a raven…
Order, order! It’s up to May to stop this ministerial bickering
Even by the accelerated standards of modern politics, this is fast. Three months after the Chancellor was appointed, the Treasury…
The Spectator’s notes
Vote Leave was the most successful electoral campaign in British history. Against the opposition of all three political parties, it…
Digging for the truth
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb may well be one of the 20th century’s great stories — but naturally that doesn’t…
Putin’s next move
The old KGB headquarters in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, is a sinister place, full of ghosts. It is a solid…
Murdoch and Assange: The Donald’s two unlikely Aussie helpers
Like a lot of Australians I’ve been captivated over the last few months by the prospect of a Trump victory. …
At least Abbott stands for something
If Malcolm Turnbull eventually loses his leadership for a second time, his pathetic arse-over-tit performance on gun control this week…
Oh to be Mia
I’ve always looked at people like Mia Freedman and been intrigued by the level of self-importance it must take to…
Constitutional recognition? Tell ’em they’re dreamin’
In Canberra today the Constitutional Education Foundation of Australia will hold a Forum on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians…
Aren’t you glad you’ve got quality media like the ABC?
ABC boss Michelle Guthrie is in Canberra for Senate estimates today, no doubt being subjected to indignities by hard-right culture…
Bambi’s budget bottom line still dogged by worries
The Baird government recently announced a $4.7 billion budget surplus for 2015-16, more than a billion dollars above the estimate…
Cory Bernardi and the deplorables
Cory Bernardi has endorsed Donald Trump… kind of. Writing on Facebook, Bernardi said: For millions of Americans worried about what…
Bob Day goes – and will the left’s Diverse-O-Meter explode?
Bob Day this morning placed his companies into liquidation and resigned from the Senate. Family First will now chose a…
Kimberley Kitching and The Age of unreason
If you’re lucky enough to live in Melbourne, you may be unlucky enough to occasionally read The Age. While people…
The Greens next target
The Greens are close to tightening their grip on political power in the basket-weaving enclave of inner Melbourne with Olivia…
Why I am and remain a feminist – a response to Trisha Jha
When I was five, my father bought me a “women are not chicks” t-shirt (I wore it on rotation with…
Some like it posh
Daphne’s serves Italian food in South Kensington. (I like the name because Daphne was the name Jack Lemmon chose for…
Barometer
Fears of a clown Professional clowns complained that the current craze for scaring people by dressing in clown outfits was…
to 2279: Where it’s at II
The name was The Spectator. THESP (SARAH BERNHARDT: 37/19), EC (EAST CENTRAL: 36/20), TAT (HEMPEN MATTING: 5/15) and OR (LOGIC…
Diogenes vs Theresa May
‘If you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere,’ proclaimed Theresa May in a speech…
Real life
Against all odds, I almost got through an entire Brexit dinner with dignity, and without opening the valve in my…
